The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 112

Oh! what shouts of joy rang through the great city, when the youth came riding back with the princess sitting behind him, and dragging the horrible monster by a cord.

Who acts: youth, princess · What happens: shout, ring, come, ride back, sit, drag · To what, where: great city, horrible monster · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 shouts	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 shouts	nsubj
4	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 joy	case
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rang	obl
7	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shouts	ccomp
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 city	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 city	amod
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rang	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 youth	det
15	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rang	conj
17	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 riding	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 princess	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 princess	det
21	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 riding	obl
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 princess	acl
23	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sitting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dragging	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dragging	cc
27	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 riding	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 monster	det
29	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 monster	amod
30	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dragging	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 cord	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cord	det
33	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dragging	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shouts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ring	past			the great city	of joy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through city=Location
3	come	past	the youth				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ride back	gerund	the youth not said here			with the princess	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	sit	gerund	the princess not said here			behind dragon	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location
6	drag	gerund	the youth not said here	the horrible monster		by a cord	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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